I've been using Slackware 12.1 on my 900A Eee PC for a while now. Before that, I was using it on a 701. In both cases, it worked really well and was very responsive (I chose to use Xfce as my desktop environment since I wasn't that familiar with Fluxbox at the time). I've even done some Common Lisp programming on them with a locally compiled SBCL. One thing I noticed in particular was that I got more free space out of my 4gb SSD than with Ubuntu-Eee or the default Xandros-based distro.
Slackware 12.2 should actually work out of the box. 12.1 required a modified kernel and a few other things (packages at http://slackeee.strangled.net/). The only thing to keep in mind is that I do a lot of things by hand on my boxen, such as set up wifi connections on the command line, so Slackware may not be the best choice for you if you're not used to this sort of thing.
I did a short writeup on installing onto my 701 on my blog, as well: http://blog.partition36.com/2008/07/04/eee-pc-meet-slackware/
Using Mutt entirely from the command line to send an email (or sendmail/esmtp directly when I've had to) has impressed a few people. I've found it useful when I have to send a file from a server, or in scripts. For example:
echo "Hello, world" | mutt -s "My Subject" -a/attach/some/file/here nobody@nowhere.com
Sendmail/esmtp is similar, except that I usually type it in directly rather than using a pipe.
Actually my use of Mutt, along with imapfilter and Emacs, as my preferred email solution has left a lot of people either confused, dumbfounded, or impressed.
Fortress has a number of interesting features, including support for Unicode characters in code, enabling code to look more like formal mathematical expressions.
First thing I think of...APL. Wonder if we'll buy new keyboard with this as well.
I've heard about The Register in a few articles before, and I'm just wondering how reliable the information on it really is. To me, the presentation of it looks like a supermarket tabloid.
If it can sense future events, that would make it less random, right? To me, that almost sounds like pre-determined events (how far into the future this pre-determination is good for, you decide), so it really isn't "random".
You mean not only can I get trance and electronica from BT, but I can also get phone services? And he's written a program called BT Communicator for it? Wow, tallented man.
Where I am, we're pretty much all PC minus a Sun lab I know about in the CompSci building where I'm a student. There's a few Macs on campus, but most of the computers are PCs and all of them are required to run WindowsXP Professional (no Home). Every single undergrad is also required to have a laptop computer. Linux is allowed on campus (I use Slackware nearly all the time, except when I want some good ol' StarCraft Battle.net action), but here's the fun part...
while I'm not totally sure, I think one of the high-up people in our technology services area wants the university to go all Linux within two years. This should be fun with all the laptops and users who aren't the most intelligent when it comes to computers. In a way, I'm happy, but also worried about the eventual outcome of all this.
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I've been using Slackware 12.1 on my 900A Eee PC for a while now. Before that, I was using it on a 701. In both cases, it worked really well and was very responsive (I chose to use Xfce as my desktop environment since I wasn't that familiar with Fluxbox at the time). I've even done some Common Lisp programming on them with a locally compiled SBCL. One thing I noticed in particular was that I got more free space out of my 4gb SSD than with Ubuntu-Eee or the default Xandros-based distro. Slackware 12.2 should actually work out of the box. 12.1 required a modified kernel and a few other things (packages at http://slackeee.strangled.net/). The only thing to keep in mind is that I do a lot of things by hand on my boxen, such as set up wifi connections on the command line, so Slackware may not be the best choice for you if you're not used to this sort of thing. I did a short writeup on installing onto my 701 on my blog, as well: http://blog.partition36.com/2008/07/04/eee-pc-meet-slackware/
This forum appears to have the entire article with the shots in it: http://www.amio.cn/forum/showthread.php?p=17759 Not that they aren't SCREENshots, they're PRODUCTION shots.
Using Mutt entirely from the command line to send an email (or sendmail/esmtp directly when I've had to) has impressed a few people. I've found it useful when I have to send a file from a server, or in scripts. For example:
echo "Hello, world" | mutt -s "My Subject" -a /attach/some/file/here nobody@nowhere.com
Sendmail/esmtp is similar, except that I usually type it in directly rather than using a pipe. Actually my use of Mutt, along with imapfilter and Emacs, as my preferred email solution has left a lot of people either confused, dumbfounded, or impressed.
Yeah, according to the article, it's back on Mars.
Can they still trademark the word "Numbers" if it's already the title of a song by Kraftwerk?
Fortress has a number of interesting features, including support for Unicode characters in code, enabling code to look more like formal mathematical expressions. First thing I think of...APL. Wonder if we'll buy new keyboard with this as well.
I've heard about The Register in a few articles before, and I'm just wondering how reliable the information on it really is. To me, the presentation of it looks like a supermarket tabloid.
Well dang, if I can't get a tan from my monitor, where can I anymore?
So how long before we can expect to see bi-pedal Gundam-like mechs on this moonbase?
If it can sense future events, that would make it less random, right? To me, that almost sounds like pre-determined events (how far into the future this pre-determination is good for, you decide), so it really isn't "random".
The University of Denver also has like four different Bachelor degrees in Game Development.
Is it just me, or does this game resemble the old Space Hulk board game? The board layout and pieces look awfully familiar.
Extended Basic, Hunt the Wumpus, and Tombstone City.
You mean not only can I get trance and electronica from BT, but I can also get phone services? And he's written a program called BT Communicator for it? Wow, tallented man.
Where I am, we're pretty much all PC minus a Sun lab I know about in the CompSci building where I'm a student. There's a few Macs on campus, but most of the computers are PCs and all of them are required to run WindowsXP Professional (no Home). Every single undergrad is also required to have a laptop computer. Linux is allowed on campus (I use Slackware nearly all the time, except when I want some good ol' StarCraft Battle.net action), but here's the fun part... while I'm not totally sure, I think one of the high-up people in our technology services area wants the university to go all Linux within two years. This should be fun with all the laptops and users who aren't the most intelligent when it comes to computers. In a way, I'm happy, but also worried about the eventual outcome of all this.